This article aims at showing that extreme situations, such as wars, can reveal a common human vulnerability, which thus leads to a lack of sovereignty affecting all the agents implied in the traumatic episode. In Zina Rohan’s 2010 novel, The Small Book, this shared vulnerability crosses time and space boundaries by connecting coetaneous characters and their subsequent generations through inherited traumatic memories. These connections lead Rohan to blur the boundaries between what we may understand as victims and perpetrators of trauma. Thus, drawing on significant theories within the fields of trauma and memory studies as well as on conceptions about human vulnerability and interconnectedness, the main aim of this study is to analyse the key narrative mechanisms used by this British–Jewish author in order to represent the shared vulnerability and exposure to trauma that reigns during war and post-war times.

本文旨在表明，诸如战争之类的极端情况可以揭示人类的共同脆弱性，从而导致主权缺失，影响到发生在创伤事件中的所有特工。在齐纳·罗汉（Zina Rohan）的2010年小说《小书》中，此共享漏洞通过继承遗传的创伤记忆来连接头等角色及其后代，从而跨越了时间和空间的界限。这些联系导致罗汉模糊了我们可能理解为创伤的受害者和肇事者之间的界限。因此，利用创伤和记忆研究领域的重要理论以及关于人类脆弱性和相互联系的概念，本研究的主要目的是分析这位英国-犹太作者使用的主要叙事机制，以代表在战时和战后时期共享脆弱性和遭受创伤的风险。